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Veteran TWA Captain
Leads Double Life
With Off-Duty Study
SEE PAGE FIVE
VOL. 18, NO. 33
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES WEEKLY EMPLOYEE PUBLICATION
AUGUST 18, 1955
DORENE COX
TWA
PETTY CLINGMAN
TWA
SUE MORGAN
BNF
TOMMIE MOFFETT
BNF
ROBERTA SHOOK
CAL
MARY LOU WEIHE
CAL
Two TWA Girls Named for
Queen Finals on TV Snow
Kansas City—Dorene Cox, typist clerk, and Betty Clingman,
hostess, were selected Tuesday
night from among 38 contestants
to represent TWA in the final
judging next week for queen of
the third annual Airlines ball to
be held Oct. 1.
Competing for the queen title
with the two TWA girls will be
two candidates from each of the
other airlines serving Kansas City.
The finals will be televised over
KCMO-TV on the "Around the
Town" program starting at 3:30
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The
girls will make brief station-break
appearances at 12:59 and 2 o'clock
prior to the half-hour program.
In addition to the girls pictured
above, finalists whose pictures
were not available include Dona
Lee Briner of Ozark Airlines, Joan
Kee and Terry Riggs of Central
Airlines.
Judges for the finals will be
John Randazzo, commercial photographer, Pat Koob, manager of
the Bette Bonn Modeling school,
and Bob Allen, commercial artist.
The girl who is chosen to reign
as this year's queen will be
crowned before the TV audience
by Pat McReynolds, TWA hostess,
who was last year's queen.
KCMO-TV is also planning film
coverage of the ball Oct. 1 at the
Hotel Muehlebach. Ken Heady,
KCMO-TV program director, will
be master of ceremonies for the
evening.
Tickets for the ball go on sale
Sept. 1 on a reserved seat basis at
$5 per couple, according to Jim
Ross, Aviation ball chairman.
Borsum Moves to Head
Amarillo Sales Force
Amarillo—Ivan T. Borsum has
assumed his new duties as district
sales manager for TWA where he
i|succeeds the late Glenn Hall, DSM
^t'or a number of years.
Borsum has served TWA in
sales capacities in the U. S. and
overseas for some years. He was
most recently district sales manager for TWA at Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia. It is expected that his experience in the Middle and Far
East will be of assistance to the
general public and travel agencies
in the Texas area.
Gerald White, formerly sales
representative at Dhahran, has
been appointed DSM at Dhahran.
White joined TWA in Sept., 1953.
JOKE OF THE WEEK
A really good salesman is the
one who can make his wife sympathize with the girl who lost her
compact in his car.
Exceptions to
CAB Examiner
Decision Filed
Washington — TWA said last
week the CAB examiner showed
a complete disregard for existing
passenger needs at Denver and
ignored the overwhelming evidence of record when he failed to
uphold TWA's proposal to serve
Denver on its coast to coast route.
Taking strong exception to the
examiner's initial decision and
recommendation that Continental
Air Lines' routes be extended from
Denver to Los Angeles and from
Denver to Chicago via Kansas
City, TWA maintained that the
examiner concerned himself primarily with local service requirements! at Denver when, in reality,
the greatest need involves long-
haul operations which TWA can
readily provide.
TWA charged that the examiner
failed to recognize the evidence
including that submitted by the
city of Denver itself. Erroneous
conclusions and inconsistencies
contained in the examiners report
were further cited in his reference
to Kansas City.
On one hand, it was pointed out,
the examiner concluded without
any basis of support—that additional east-west service is today
required at Kansas City. Yet, he
subsequently observed . . . "there
is no proof of inadequate service
at Kansas City."
TWA also commented on the
monopoly of United Airlines at
Denver, and re-affirmed the need
for competitive east-west service
which it would provide with service to seven of Denver's ten principal markets.
Reduced Rate Tickets
Available to TWAers
New York—Reduced rate tickets"
are available for Guy Lombardo's
"1955 Version of Arabian Nights."
The show, starring Lauritz Mel-
chior and a large cast including
the Ballet theatre, is taking place
at the Jones Beach Marine theatre,
Jones Beach State Park, N. Y.
Tickets may be obtained from
industrial relations, Room 221,
Hangar 4, LaGuardia field. Tickets
are good from now through Sept.
1 for any Sunday through Thursday performance.
TWA Applies For New
$80 Excursion Fares
From Coast to Coast
New York—The lowest transcontinental air fare ever offered
by a scheduled U. S. airline was
announced today by TWA in an
application filed with the Civil
Aeronautics board. Effective September 12, upon approval by the
CAB, the new "excursion" fare
will provide round-trip sky
tourist service on regular scheduled flights between New York
and Los Angeles or San Francisco
for only $80 plus tax each way.
Similar round-trip excursion
rates to the west coast from Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and
Washington, and to the east coast
from Fresno and Oakland, Calif.,
will become effective at the same
time, it was said. Excursion fares
are good Monday through Thursday for round trips completed
within 30 days.
Announcing the new low fares,
E. O. Cocke, TWA vice-president
of sales, stressed frequency and
dependability of service. "More
travelers than ever," he pointed
out, "can now fly coast-to-coast
in the finest equipment available."
TWA will fly excursion-rate passengers on its regular four-engine
sky tourist Constellations.
Interchange Stops
Link Las Vegas
With Texas Cities
New York—The first direct one-
plane service connecting Houston
and Dallas with Las Vegas and
west coast points was inaugurated
Aug. 15 by TWA and Braniff International Airways.
The new service from San Francisco and Los Angeles through Las
Vegas to Texas will be operated
with 55-passenger Constellations.
The flight will originate daily in
San Francisco at 12:45 p. m., arrive Los Angeles at 2:24 p. m.,
arrive Las Vegas at 4:09 p. m. and
continue on to Amarillo arriving
at 8:30 pjn., Dallas at 10:15 p. m.
and Houston at 11:50 p. m.
Westbound the flight will depart
Houston at 7 a. m., Dallas at 8:35
a. m., arrive at Amarillo at 10:05
a. m., Las Vegas at 12:41 p. m.,
Los Angeles at 2:25 p. m. and San
Francisco at 4:35 p. m.
The point of interchange will
be Amarillo with Braniff crews
operating the aircraft between
Houston and Amarillo and TWA
flight personnel flying the plane
from the latter city to Las Vegas
and the west coast.
Through the interchange the
first and only direct service between Houston and Dallas and Las
Vegas will be established providing easy access to the west coast
through the resort city.
Cred/f Union Assets
Pass $5 Million Mark
Kansas City—E. Wiley Barker, president of the TWA Club Credit
Union, today announced that the assets of the Credit Union went over
the $5,000,000 mark as of July 31. In the past twelve months, the
assets have increased $1,060,000.
During the same period, deposits increased $1,013,000 and loans increased $912,000.
Fairyland Park Is
Reserved for TWA
Picnic on Sept 10
Kansas City—Several thousand
TWA employees and their families
will take over Fairyland park lock,
stock and barrel when the TWA
employees club holds its annual
family picnic Sept. 10.
The entire park at 75th street
and Prospect has been reserved for
the day for TWA people only—
from 11 in the morning till 11 at
night.
Club President Pete LaFollette
said 4,463 TWA people attended
last year's picnic—by official gate
count up until 8 p.m.—and that
every TWAer in the Greater Kansas City area is invited to come to
this year's show and bring along
the whole family. Clarence Eden,
picnic chairman, says that all plans
have been wrapped up and he
promises this year's picnic will
outshine anything the club has put
on in past years.
There will be the usual refreshments and all efforts are being
directed towards extra special enjoyment for the children. Strip
tickets for the many rides in Fairyland will be issued free to every
child at the entrance, each strip
consisting of 10 tickets valued at
5 c each. Three tickets will be good
for one 20c or 25c ride; two tickets
will be good for a 17c ride, and one
ticket good for a 9c ride.
When all the strip tickets are
gone and the kids are still yammering for more rides, the following discount prices will apply: 20c
for a 25c ride (or 20c ride), 14c
for a 17c ride, 5c for a 9c ride.
Picnic ovens, firewood, tables
and other equipment wiU be available for families who wish to use
them. Refreshments will be served
from the two large shelter houses
at the park. Entertainment scheduled throughout the day includes
a beauty contest at 1:30 with
Ralph McClenahan in charge; two
softball games (TWA girls vs.
Sheffield Steel at 2:30 and K. C. vs.
St. Louis at 4:30); dancing and
other entertainment to be announced later.
TWA club cards, will be sufficient for identification and admission to the park.
Barker attributed the increase
in loans to the tremendous buying
surge in new automobiles which
has taken place in the last five
months. He also attributed the
equally large increase in share deposits to an exemplification of the
national post-war trend of maintaining adequate cash reserves.
Barker pointed out in this regard
that the TWA employees are performing better than the population
as a whole. Nationally, deposits
are up 3.5% over one year ago,
whereas, the average deposit of
members of the Credit Union is up
15.5%.
Elmer Jones, manager of the
Credit Union, pointed out that
adequate funds were on hand in
the form of cash or government
securities to handle other loans
that members might desire to
make during the present buyer's
market. He also pointed out that
the Credit Union has maintained
its low rate of interest despite the
recent nationwide trend to increase such charges. He urges all
TWA employees to contact their
Credit Union representative or the
Credit Union office if they are
contemplating large purchases or
borrowing in the future.
On Page 6 are comparative
balance sheet statements of income
and expenses and some important
comparisons based on the current
figures and those of one year ago.
Management Club Meets
In Chicago on August 31
Chicago—Feature of the Chicago TWA Management club
meeting on Aug. 31 will be election of officers. Meeting will be
held at the Graemere hotel, Milt
Chandler, president, announced.
Four Chicago department heads
will give a brief description of
the operation of their respective
departments at the meeting. They
are Jim Harrigan, sales; Byron
Jackson, operations; Lyle Hincks,
flying, and Frank Toyne, maintenance.
Chandler also noted that TWA
President Ralph Damon will be
the principal speaker at the Annual American Management night
sponsored by the Chicagoland
council of the NAF, with which
all TWA management clubs are
affiliated. This meeting is scheduled for Sept. 20 at the Furniture
club, Chicago.

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Veteran TWA Captain
Leads Double Life
With Off-Duty Study
SEE PAGE FIVE
VOL. 18, NO. 33
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES WEEKLY EMPLOYEE PUBLICATION
AUGUST 18, 1955
DORENE COX
TWA
PETTY CLINGMAN
TWA
SUE MORGAN
BNF
TOMMIE MOFFETT
BNF
ROBERTA SHOOK
CAL
MARY LOU WEIHE
CAL
Two TWA Girls Named for
Queen Finals on TV Snow
Kansas City—Dorene Cox, typist clerk, and Betty Clingman,
hostess, were selected Tuesday
night from among 38 contestants
to represent TWA in the final
judging next week for queen of
the third annual Airlines ball to
be held Oct. 1.
Competing for the queen title
with the two TWA girls will be
two candidates from each of the
other airlines serving Kansas City.
The finals will be televised over
KCMO-TV on the "Around the
Town" program starting at 3:30
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The
girls will make brief station-break
appearances at 12:59 and 2 o'clock
prior to the half-hour program.
In addition to the girls pictured
above, finalists whose pictures
were not available include Dona
Lee Briner of Ozark Airlines, Joan
Kee and Terry Riggs of Central
Airlines.
Judges for the finals will be
John Randazzo, commercial photographer, Pat Koob, manager of
the Bette Bonn Modeling school,
and Bob Allen, commercial artist.
The girl who is chosen to reign
as this year's queen will be
crowned before the TV audience
by Pat McReynolds, TWA hostess,
who was last year's queen.
KCMO-TV is also planning film
coverage of the ball Oct. 1 at the
Hotel Muehlebach. Ken Heady,
KCMO-TV program director, will
be master of ceremonies for the
evening.
Tickets for the ball go on sale
Sept. 1 on a reserved seat basis at
$5 per couple, according to Jim
Ross, Aviation ball chairman.
Borsum Moves to Head
Amarillo Sales Force
Amarillo—Ivan T. Borsum has
assumed his new duties as district
sales manager for TWA where he
i|succeeds the late Glenn Hall, DSM
^t'or a number of years.
Borsum has served TWA in
sales capacities in the U. S. and
overseas for some years. He was
most recently district sales manager for TWA at Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia. It is expected that his experience in the Middle and Far
East will be of assistance to the
general public and travel agencies
in the Texas area.
Gerald White, formerly sales
representative at Dhahran, has
been appointed DSM at Dhahran.
White joined TWA in Sept., 1953.
JOKE OF THE WEEK
A really good salesman is the
one who can make his wife sympathize with the girl who lost her
compact in his car.
Exceptions to
CAB Examiner
Decision Filed
Washington — TWA said last
week the CAB examiner showed
a complete disregard for existing
passenger needs at Denver and
ignored the overwhelming evidence of record when he failed to
uphold TWA's proposal to serve
Denver on its coast to coast route.
Taking strong exception to the
examiner's initial decision and
recommendation that Continental
Air Lines' routes be extended from
Denver to Los Angeles and from
Denver to Chicago via Kansas
City, TWA maintained that the
examiner concerned himself primarily with local service requirements! at Denver when, in reality,
the greatest need involves long-
haul operations which TWA can
readily provide.
TWA charged that the examiner
failed to recognize the evidence
including that submitted by the
city of Denver itself. Erroneous
conclusions and inconsistencies
contained in the examiners report
were further cited in his reference
to Kansas City.
On one hand, it was pointed out,
the examiner concluded without
any basis of support—that additional east-west service is today
required at Kansas City. Yet, he
subsequently observed . . . "there
is no proof of inadequate service
at Kansas City."
TWA also commented on the
monopoly of United Airlines at
Denver, and re-affirmed the need
for competitive east-west service
which it would provide with service to seven of Denver's ten principal markets.
Reduced Rate Tickets
Available to TWAers
New York—Reduced rate tickets"
are available for Guy Lombardo's
"1955 Version of Arabian Nights."
The show, starring Lauritz Mel-
chior and a large cast including
the Ballet theatre, is taking place
at the Jones Beach Marine theatre,
Jones Beach State Park, N. Y.
Tickets may be obtained from
industrial relations, Room 221,
Hangar 4, LaGuardia field. Tickets
are good from now through Sept.
1 for any Sunday through Thursday performance.
TWA Applies For New
$80 Excursion Fares
From Coast to Coast
New York—The lowest transcontinental air fare ever offered
by a scheduled U. S. airline was
announced today by TWA in an
application filed with the Civil
Aeronautics board. Effective September 12, upon approval by the
CAB, the new "excursion" fare
will provide round-trip sky
tourist service on regular scheduled flights between New York
and Los Angeles or San Francisco
for only $80 plus tax each way.
Similar round-trip excursion
rates to the west coast from Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and
Washington, and to the east coast
from Fresno and Oakland, Calif.,
will become effective at the same
time, it was said. Excursion fares
are good Monday through Thursday for round trips completed
within 30 days.
Announcing the new low fares,
E. O. Cocke, TWA vice-president
of sales, stressed frequency and
dependability of service. "More
travelers than ever," he pointed
out, "can now fly coast-to-coast
in the finest equipment available."
TWA will fly excursion-rate passengers on its regular four-engine
sky tourist Constellations.
Interchange Stops
Link Las Vegas
With Texas Cities
New York—The first direct one-
plane service connecting Houston
and Dallas with Las Vegas and
west coast points was inaugurated
Aug. 15 by TWA and Braniff International Airways.
The new service from San Francisco and Los Angeles through Las
Vegas to Texas will be operated
with 55-passenger Constellations.
The flight will originate daily in
San Francisco at 12:45 p. m., arrive Los Angeles at 2:24 p. m.,
arrive Las Vegas at 4:09 p. m. and
continue on to Amarillo arriving
at 8:30 pjn., Dallas at 10:15 p. m.
and Houston at 11:50 p. m.
Westbound the flight will depart
Houston at 7 a. m., Dallas at 8:35
a. m., arrive at Amarillo at 10:05
a. m., Las Vegas at 12:41 p. m.,
Los Angeles at 2:25 p. m. and San
Francisco at 4:35 p. m.
The point of interchange will
be Amarillo with Braniff crews
operating the aircraft between
Houston and Amarillo and TWA
flight personnel flying the plane
from the latter city to Las Vegas
and the west coast.
Through the interchange the
first and only direct service between Houston and Dallas and Las
Vegas will be established providing easy access to the west coast
through the resort city.
Cred/f Union Assets
Pass $5 Million Mark
Kansas City—E. Wiley Barker, president of the TWA Club Credit
Union, today announced that the assets of the Credit Union went over
the $5,000,000 mark as of July 31. In the past twelve months, the
assets have increased $1,060,000.
During the same period, deposits increased $1,013,000 and loans increased $912,000.
Fairyland Park Is
Reserved for TWA
Picnic on Sept 10
Kansas City—Several thousand
TWA employees and their families
will take over Fairyland park lock,
stock and barrel when the TWA
employees club holds its annual
family picnic Sept. 10.
The entire park at 75th street
and Prospect has been reserved for
the day for TWA people only—
from 11 in the morning till 11 at
night.
Club President Pete LaFollette
said 4,463 TWA people attended
last year's picnic—by official gate
count up until 8 p.m.—and that
every TWAer in the Greater Kansas City area is invited to come to
this year's show and bring along
the whole family. Clarence Eden,
picnic chairman, says that all plans
have been wrapped up and he
promises this year's picnic will
outshine anything the club has put
on in past years.
There will be the usual refreshments and all efforts are being
directed towards extra special enjoyment for the children. Strip
tickets for the many rides in Fairyland will be issued free to every
child at the entrance, each strip
consisting of 10 tickets valued at
5 c each. Three tickets will be good
for one 20c or 25c ride; two tickets
will be good for a 17c ride, and one
ticket good for a 9c ride.
When all the strip tickets are
gone and the kids are still yammering for more rides, the following discount prices will apply: 20c
for a 25c ride (or 20c ride), 14c
for a 17c ride, 5c for a 9c ride.
Picnic ovens, firewood, tables
and other equipment wiU be available for families who wish to use
them. Refreshments will be served
from the two large shelter houses
at the park. Entertainment scheduled throughout the day includes
a beauty contest at 1:30 with
Ralph McClenahan in charge; two
softball games (TWA girls vs.
Sheffield Steel at 2:30 and K. C. vs.
St. Louis at 4:30); dancing and
other entertainment to be announced later.
TWA club cards, will be sufficient for identification and admission to the park.
Barker attributed the increase
in loans to the tremendous buying
surge in new automobiles which
has taken place in the last five
months. He also attributed the
equally large increase in share deposits to an exemplification of the
national post-war trend of maintaining adequate cash reserves.
Barker pointed out in this regard
that the TWA employees are performing better than the population
as a whole. Nationally, deposits
are up 3.5% over one year ago,
whereas, the average deposit of
members of the Credit Union is up
15.5%.
Elmer Jones, manager of the
Credit Union, pointed out that
adequate funds were on hand in
the form of cash or government
securities to handle other loans
that members might desire to
make during the present buyer's
market. He also pointed out that
the Credit Union has maintained
its low rate of interest despite the
recent nationwide trend to increase such charges. He urges all
TWA employees to contact their
Credit Union representative or the
Credit Union office if they are
contemplating large purchases or
borrowing in the future.
On Page 6 are comparative
balance sheet statements of income
and expenses and some important
comparisons based on the current
figures and those of one year ago.
Management Club Meets
In Chicago on August 31
Chicago—Feature of the Chicago TWA Management club
meeting on Aug. 31 will be election of officers. Meeting will be
held at the Graemere hotel, Milt
Chandler, president, announced.
Four Chicago department heads
will give a brief description of
the operation of their respective
departments at the meeting. They
are Jim Harrigan, sales; Byron
Jackson, operations; Lyle Hincks,
flying, and Frank Toyne, maintenance.
Chandler also noted that TWA
President Ralph Damon will be
the principal speaker at the Annual American Management night
sponsored by the Chicagoland
council of the NAF, with which
all TWA management clubs are
affiliated. This meeting is scheduled for Sept. 20 at the Furniture
club, Chicago.